URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT: THEORETICAL RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

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Abstract. The article provides a retrospective of the urban agglomeration and systematization of the scientific heritage of a number of modern domestic and foreign theories. The subject of the study is the analysis of fundamental theories of the formation and development of urban agglomerations from ancient times to the modern period. The aim of the work is a comprehensive study of scientific schools and trends, which are the theoretical and methodological form of the concept of urban agglomeration, in order to substantiate important and promising trends in the theory of agglomeration development. The following research methods are used in the article: methods of theoretical cognition, general logical methods and research methods (abstraction and generalization, induction and deduction, systematic approach, structural and functional method, methods of comparative analysis). The result of the work is the analysis and substantiation of the most promising directions of foreign and domestic theories of agglomeration processes. Scope of application of the results-this article, along with other works, expands the scientific field of research concerning the fundamental concepts of spatial development in the context of urban agglomeration theory. As a result of the analysis, conclusions were drawn about the priority trends of scientificresearch in terms of the theory of agglomeration, aimed at finding reserves for improving the efficiency of spatial management by activating agglomeration processes. Keywords: agglomeration process, theories of spatial development, theories of production placement and population settlement, theories of urban agglomeration